I've got a few paragraphs of text, some paragraphs have images. I need to split them into 2 columns on the page, something like the format of newspapers and magazines. Is there a simpler way to do it using html instead of manually by trial and error?

you can use TABLES to display the data in format you need.

Om Prakash

yea.. but is there a more automated way, like i put in a chunk of text, and it automaticlly splits the text into 2 columns?

> yea.. but is there a more automated way, like i put in a chunk of text, and it automaticlly splits the text into 2 columns?

There is a way of doing what you are asking, but it is still very new. In fact it is only implemented in one browser that I know of at the moment, Mozilla 1.8 alpha 5. So it doesn't even yet appear in a stable browser, much less a mainstream browser.

If you are interested anyway, you can find it described here:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-css3-multicol-20010118/

I haven't even experimented with this myself, so I don't know how the Mozilla implementation fairs. If you want to experiement with this feature and see what it's about, I believe that those properties must be included with a "-moz-" prefix.

Beyond that there isn't really anything that is capable of it that I am aware of, when it is possible CSS will be the place to find it.

Regards,
Rich

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Modify to your needs then save as a templet for quick use, that is what I do

<TABLE WIDTH="70%" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="5" BORDER="0">
                <TR>
                <TD ALIGN="LEFT">

<IMG SRC="" WIDTH="100" HEIGHT="146" BORDER="0">
                </TD>

                <TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="100%">

                <B>
Title
                                </B>


                <P>

I'm a little teapot short and stout, here is my handle here is ... wait ... you should put some words in here. people like to read words

                </TD>
                </TR>

                </TABLE>

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